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The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic ...

The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic ...

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Mark Kremer (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), 4. 6. Kremer, “Introduction,” in Plato's Cleitophon, 4. 7. For an account of Aristophanes' self-understanding and its inadequacies, see Stanley Rosen's explication of Aristophanes' speech in  ...
Aristophanes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Aristophanes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Oxford University Press

▻Biles, Zachary P. 2002. Intertextual biography in the rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes. American Journal of Philology 123:169–204. DOI: 10.1353/ajp. 2002.0017 How Aristophanes and Cratinus fought it out on stage by creating their own ...
Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds

Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds

Aristophanes

Presents translations of three satirical plays along with information on staging, history, religious practice, myths, and issues raised by each play.
Aristophanes' Frogs

Aristophanes' Frogs

Mark Griffith

This book provides an invaluable companion to one of Aristophanes' most cherished works, Frogs.
Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition

Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition

Zachary P. Biles

This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general.
Birds and Other Plays

Birds and Other Plays

Aristophanes

This is the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition, complete with an ...
Six Greek comedies

Six Greek comedies

Aristophanes

This selection of six wide-ranging plays includes the comic fantasies of Aristophanes, which combine the ridiculous with serious satirical comment (Birds, Frogs, Women in Power); Menander's The Woman from Samos, a recognisable forebear of ...
The Comedies of Aristophanes: The Peace. The Lysistrata. The ...

The Comedies of Aristophanes: The Peace. The Lysistrata. The ...

Aristophanes

The interpretation of the French translator appears very strange, elle West bonne qu'a tirer des horoscopes. i That is, according to Fl. Christianus, rd rpia tSiv ei'c Bdvarov, because three kinds of death were proposed to the condemned, viz. the  ...
The Acharnians

The Acharnians

Aristophanes

The Acharnians or Acharnians is the third play — and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays — by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes.
Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, ...

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, ...

Mario Telò

In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his ...
Aristophanes' Comedy of Names: A Study of Speaking Names in ...

Aristophanes' Comedy of Names: A Study of Speaking Names in ...

Nikoletta Kanavou

Comic names used by Aristophanes for his satirical targets (public figures, everyday Athenians) provide the main subject of this book, which addresses questions such as why particular names are chosen (or invented), and how they relate to ...
Aristophanes, 2: Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, The Sexual Congress

Aristophanes, 2: Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, The Sexual Congress

Aristophanes

A volume in the acclaimed Penn Greek Drama Series containing "Wasps," "Lysistrata," "Frogs," and "The Sexual Congress."
Greek Drama

Greek Drama

Gwen Hunter

Covers the development of Greek drama from early religious festivals through to the comedies of Aristophanes and the tragedies of Sophocles.
Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, ...

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, ...

Mario Telò

... Reperformance in Ancient Greece,” organized by Anna Uhlig and Richard Hunter, lent an attentive and sympathetic ear to some of the contents of the book. I also want to thank Jim Porter for conversations through the years that, together ...
Socrates and Aristophanes

Socrates and Aristophanes

Leo Strauss

"Strauss gives us an impressive addition to his life's work—the recovery of the Great Tradition in political philosophy. The problem the book proposes centers formally upon Socrates.
Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy

Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy

M. S. Silk

'Silk succeeds brilliantly, ranging far and wide across the entire spectrum of ancient and modern comedy... Michael Silk has given us much to think about.
Musical!: A Grand Tour : the Rise, Glory, and Fall of an ...

Musical!: A Grand Tour : the Rise, Glory, and Fall of an ...

Denny Martin Flinn

Traces the history of the musical, from its European roots in Aristophanes, Shakespeare, and "The Beggar's Opera", to American musicals and their offshoots, and finally to its decline over the past two decades
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

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2. ZACHARY P. BILES ... thrived in the archaic period and earlier. From this. 1 Olson (2007) 379–91; Millis and Olson (2012). 2 For the evidence and criticism, see Storey (2002). 3 43 The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander zachary p biles .
Socrates on Trial: A Play Based on Aristophanes' Clouds and ...

Socrates on Trial: A Play Based on Aristophanes' Clouds and ...

A. D. Irvine

... language has been reworked, although some wording has been incorporated from two separate English-language translations: Ian Johnston's translation of the Clouds (Malaspina University-College, 2004) and Steve Wexler's translation of ...
The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models ...

The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models ...

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Biles, Zachary P. “Aeschylus' Afterlife: Reperformance by Decree in 5th-C. Athens ?” Illinois Classical Studies 31–32 (2006–2007): 206–242. Biles, Zachary P. “ Intertextual Biography in the Rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes.” American ...
Lysistrata, The Women's Festival, and Frogs

Lysistrata, The Women's Festival, and Frogs

Aristophanes

Also by Michael Ewans [anéc'ek's Tragic Operas (Faber, 1977) Wagner and Aeschylus: The Ring and the Oresteia (Faber, 1982) Georg Biichner's Woyzeck ( Peter Lang, 1989) Aeschylus: Oresteia (editor and translator) (I. M. Dent, 1995) ...
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher

Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher

Gregory Vlastos

Ironist and Moral Philosopher Gregory Vlastos. Dover, K. R. (1968). Aristophanes , “Clouds,” Oxford (1974). Greek Popular Morality, Oxford (1978). Greek Homosexuality, Cambridge, Mass. (1983).“The Portrayal ofMoral Evaluationin ...

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